Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, I... the son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Indeed, I believe that in the future, when we shall have seized again, as we will seize if we are true to ourselves, our own fair ...part of commerce upon the sea, and when we shall have again our appropriate share of South American trade, that these railroads from St. Louis, touching deep harbors on the gulf, and communicating there with lines of steamships, shall touch the ports of South America and bring their tribute to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

'How far is St. Helena from an Emperor of France?'I cannot see--I cannot tell--the Crowns they dazzle so....The Kings sit down to dinner, and the Queens stand up to dance.(After open weather you may look for snow!)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St. ...Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must le...ap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica ...of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse....The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;The children were nestled all snug in their beds,While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »